PHOENIX — A Phoenix city hearing officer was killed last month in a city-owned parking garage, prompting immediate and long-term safety changes to all nine garages operated by the city.
On February 11, just around 4:20 p.m., Susan Hawkins, 60, was coming out of the elevators in the garage when she was hit by a truck making a turn.
She was taken to the hospital, where she died. The driver of the truck stayed with the police. Following up with Phoenix Police, the department says there is no update to the incident, which at last check remains under investigation.
Hawkins served as a Phoenix court hearing officer, at times overseeing traffic cases…